All England Open: Sindhu happy to win quarter-finals

With this victory, Sindhu registered her fifth win over the Nagano-born World No. 6 Japanese, who robbed her of a World Championship gold at Glasgow after a 110 minute marathon battle which went down in history as one of the greatest. Photo: Twitter ...

Saturday's All England women's singles semifinal between world No. 3 PV Sindhu and No. 2 Akane Yamaguchi of Japan could have been the Indian's. The 22-year-old Sindhu could have been playing the world No. 1 Tai Tzu-Ying of Chinese Taipei in Sunday's final.

'I have lost matches were I am leading. I know physically and mentally at times when you lose such matches it hits you, but we have to comeback stronger to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' IMAGE: PV Sindhu in action. Photograph: Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu says losing close matches from advantageous position dealt a blow to her confidence and she is looking to overcome it by working on the mental aspect of her game.Sindhu achieved unprecedented ...

IMAGE: PV Sindhu in action. Photograph: BAI/Twitter Olympic silver-medallist P V Sindhu led the women's team to a thrilling 3-2 win over Hong Kong as India made a positive start in the Asia badminton Team Championship, in Alor Setar, Malaysia, on Tuesday.   With London Olympics bronze-medallist Saina Nehwal pulling out of the tournament citing a groin injury, Sindhu proved her mettle as she first claimed the singles match and then combined with N Sikki Reddy to win the second doubles ...

‘Tai Tzu is playing well but Sindhu beat her at the Olympics, when it mattered’ ‘Some may argue that second is not good enough but I am more positive’ IMAGE: PV Sindhu, left, speaks to her coach P Gopichand. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images. He is known to be a demanding coach but Pullela Gopichand is of the opinion that Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu's odd defeats can't be termed as her failure, not even by a single per cent.   “I am not too ...